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Using PowerShell to View and Remove Wireless Profiles in Windows 10 – Part 2

October 2, 2019 Oct 2, 2019 10/2/19
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Using Measure-Command to determine the fastest approach to a solution. Last week we were having some fun using PowerShell as a wrapper around the NetSh.exe command's output. We were left at a decision point. Which way to go? A For loop to clean up the data, which worked fine or Regular Expressions. Although both work which was ...

Large C# and VB solutions load significantly faster in 15.5 update

November 20, 2017 Nov 20, 2017 11/20/17
ScriptingGuy1
On average, 50 percent of all solutions opened by Visual Studio users open in ten seconds or less. However, large solutions can take longer to load because there are a lot of projects that Visual Studio needs to process. Over the last six months, we looked at ways to make solution load much faster, even for large solutions. We are happy to ...

Test Experience Improvements

November 16, 2017 Nov 16, 2017 11/16/17
ScriptingGuy1
There have been several significant improvements to the test experience that range across Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services. These efforts involved frameworks and tooling for both .NET and C++, but all had a common goal: make testing with our developer tools a great experience. .NET Side-by-side Performance Comparison These ...